regaining its past popularity, since a new priest came to Bargemon six years ago, giving a place of honor back to the Virgin Mary. Since then, pilgrims have flocked and a community of 42 Christian refugees [...] parish activities. The Virgin Mary wants to make of this village a new oasis of Christian life. For this, we must put charity back in the center. The Iraqis went to work—with some of our residents—they are [...] Graces (Trieste, Italy, 1486) The revival of a Marian shrine in Provence The village of Bargemon (France) is one of two places of apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Provence. It was an important pilgrimage
have a psychology of orphans. A Christian does not have the right to be an orphan. He has a Mother! We have a Mother. An elderly preacher once ended his sermon by saying, “Whoever does not want Mary as a [...] 1624) Can a Christian pretend to be an orphan? Mary is Mother, and one cannot conceive any other title of Mary that is not ‘Mother.’ She is Mother, because she brings us Jesus and she helps us with the strength [...] a Mother will have her as a mother-in-law!” Pope Francis Speech given to 7,500 members of the Schoenstatt Movement, in Rome for the 100th anniversary of their foundation, October 25, 2014
shrine in the Diocese of Calgary. The Virgin Mary is sitting with her son Jesus in a lush Alberta forest, surrounded by deer drinking from a gurgling stream, with the majestic Three Sisters peaks in the background [...] reach the church will have as a Marian shrine. “In many ways our diocese, under the patronage of Mary, we should have a shrine church,” McGrattan said. “We should have a place in which people, not only [...] August 18 – Our Lady of Rejoicing (France) A new Marian shrine in Canada Canmore, Alberta, has a new shrine called Our Lady of the Rockies Church. Bishop William McGrattan of Calgary celebrated Mass at
The Christian presence was born with the first 250 Catholic families. The erection of the shrine took place in 1917, as a sign of gratitude to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, at the behest of [...] during sectarian violence in the Kandhamal district in 2008. Martha Nayak, a widow who survived the massacres, says: "The Virgin Mary intercedes for us in times of sickness, suffering, danger and hopeless [...] by various waves of drought that caused at least 10 million deaths. The peak was in 1866 with the outbreak of a cholera and smallpox epidemic. The first to respond to the calamity were the French missionaries
established) Mount Carmel: a link between Garabandal, Lourdes and Fatima The title Mary gave herself in Garabandal, Spain(1), "Our Lady of Mount Carmel", suggests a link with the apparitions in Lourdes [...] scapular. In Garabandal, Mary herself wearing the scapular invites us to (re)discover its meaning: the devotion of the Carmelite scapular is a variant of the consecration to Jesus by Mary. F. Breynaert, April [...] to Lourdes on July 16, 1858, on the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mary placed the symbol of Mount Carmel at the culmination of a spiritual journey of which the previous apparitions were the necessary
April 28 - Saint Louis de Montfort “I myself found reading this book a great help.” " St Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort wrote the Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin at the beginning of the [...] Virgin. I myself, in the years of my youth, found reading this book a great help... At one point I had feared that if my devotion to Mary became too great, it might end up compromising the supremacy of the [...] the worship owed to Christ. Under the wise guidance of St Louis Marie, I realized that if one lives the mystery of Mary in Christ this risk does not exist… Throughout its history, the People of God has
Constantinople (today Istanbul,Turkey) with great devotion and wore a medal of Our Lady around his neck all his life. As he was nearing his death, he asked to be buried with a statue of the Madonna and Child [...] “Lourdes.” A thousand years before her apparition to Saint Bernadette, the Virgin had thus officially been given dominion over the place where she appeared in the 19th century! Françoise Breynaert (Marie de Nazareth) [...] January 26 – Our Lady of Life (France) Charlemagne wore a medal of Our Lady Charlemagne (d. 814) was crowned in the basilica of Aachen (Germany), which he had dedicated to the Mother of God. He received
and began a long road of investigation. In 1934, while lying sick in bed, she heard a radio program called The Catholic Hour, and afterward contacted a local Catholic priest. Evans met with the priest [...] calling her to be Catholic. A year later Evans, her husband, and two daughters converted to the Catholic faith. This led her into a deeper relationship with Christ, and she kept a diary of her many mystical [...] ] Born in 1904 in Utah, Cora Evans began life in a Mormon household. Then at the age of 3, Evans experienced a mystical vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary, though at the time she didn’t fully understand
featured in a film about the Rosary On September 14, 1982, Princess Grace of Monaco lost her life in a car accident. The whole world was shocked and saddened by the tragic death of this great lady, with a noble [...] before her death. A devout Catholic, the Princess was unable to resist a pressing invitation from Father Peyton, the apostle of the Family Rosary, whom she knew well and who wanted to produce a new film at St [...] recite the mysteries of the Rosary with tremendous enthusiasm and fervor. I remember her inspired gaze, the perfect intonation of her voice, the impeccable style with which she recited the Gospel verses
it his life's project. Moreover, by virtue of its meditative character, with the tranquil succession of Hail Marys, the Rosary has a peaceful effect on those who pray it, disposing them to receive and experience [...] more at peace with those around us. In “Rosarium Virginis Mariae,” Saint Pope John Paul II wrote about how praying the Rosary can bring us peace. The saint wrote “The Rosary is by its nature a prayer for [...] March 2 – 13th apparition in Lourdes – Pius XI’s letter to France (1922) The Rosary has a peaceful effect on those who pray it Praying the joyful mysteries of the Rosary … can help us find the peace that’s
